At 10:27 AM 4/16/2002, Karl Fogel wrote:
Greg Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Windows UUIDs are a helluva better than ours in terms of uniqueness. We
> compensate, but Windows does a much better job.
Or if we find that really unclean, then abstract one key portion of
the uuid code and keep it in APR, but put all the uuid interfaces
(wrappers around that key portion) into apr-util, which can depend on
apr for platform-specific stuff.
So then apr-util is the official provider of uuid functionality, but
depends on apr to implement it.
The real question - exactly -what- is the benefit to moving into apr-util?
If we are talking uniquity, there are many machine/os/cpu specific tricks
that could be employed to gain a safely unique ID [across all apr-based
processes] with minimal interlocking pain. Let's leave sleeping dogs lie
and focus on improving on the shortcomings that Greg just pointed out.
Bill
